It's in Nvidia’s interest to crush ARM like a bug
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Worth more dead than alive

ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser has warned that it is in Nvidia’s interest to destroy the company he co-founded.

SoftBank needs to sell ARM because it over invested
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An Nvidia sale will stuff everything up

Co-founder and ex-president of ARM Holdings, Tudor Brown says that SoftBank's projected sale of the chip company to Nvidia is the result of a bungled business strategy that saw the fund throw too much money at ARM and prioritize the wrong business areas.

Nuvia Phoenix CPU is faster than all its ARM X86 competition
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Datacenter power/performance leadership

We have reported that a hot new chip startup founded by ex-Apple and ex-Google engineer rock stars, got funded in the first round of financing with $53 million. Now, Nuvia is ready to share some preliminary performance and power numbers. Both power and performance are beating every mobile and server CPU core that exists on the market.

UK should buy ARM
Published in PC Hardware
10 August 2020

UK should buy ARM


That is what Brexit was all about not the NHS

With SoftBank's Masayoshi Son trying to sell ARM, a columnist for the Observer newspaper claims that the UK company was  "a kind of public-interest commercial company” which its government should buy.

ARM China conflict escalates
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Chinese government might need to become involved

ARM's conflict with its Chinese subsidiuary is getting out of hand, and might require intervention from the Chinese government.

ARM says its Chinese subsidiary CEO creates a climate of fear
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Global warming of tempers

ARM has accused ARM China CEO Allen Wu of “propagating false information and creating a culture of fear and confusion among ARM China employees”.

Nvidia considers buying ARM
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Softbank wants to offload it and Apple is not interested

The dark satanic rumour mill suggests that Nvidia is considering buying ARM from Softbank in one of the biggest ever semiconductor deals.

Microsoft must follow Apple into ARM chips claims Gassée
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Apple leads PC development so everyone must drop x86 and copy it

Apple’s former head of Mac development, Jean-Louis Gassée, has said that Apple’s decision to switch to ARM processors for Macs will make it inevitable that higher-end Windows PCs will have to do the same.

Japan owns the fastest supercomputer in the world
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Able to take on IBM

A Japanese ARM-based supercomputer has taken the top spot in the bi-annual Top500 supercomputer speed ranking.

Apple ARM roadmap is short on specifics
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Will it be as reliable as Apple Maps?

Apple has been telling the world+dog how it no longer needs Intel for its Macs and can safely move users to ARM based mobile chips.